ABC's "Good Morning America" was just one of many national media outlets that has covered the Midland City, Ala., child hostage situation in recent days. This is a still from a video broadcast on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (ABC screenshot)

MIDLAND CITY, Alabama -- The eyes of the national media are focused on Alabama this week, where, in Midland City, a 5-year-old boy named Ethan was taken hostage by Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old retired truck driver who shot and killed a school bus driver and captured the boy.

Since the standoff in Dale County began, ABC's "Good Morning America", CNN's Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan, the Associated Press and NBC's "Today" show have covered the situation.

On ABC's "Good Morning America" yesterday, a reporter played recordings from police dispatchers responding to the situation. In one clip, an officer says he was receiving a call from a child on the bus where the suspect, Jimmy Lee Dykes, demanded two children, shot and killed bus driver Charles Albert Poland, Jr., and abducted a five-year-old child, Ethan, on Tuesday afternoon.

"A child is on the line with us advising us the driver's been shot," an officer says on the tape.

"Suspect has removed a child from the bus," another officer says on the tape.

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At CNN, "Piers Morgan Tonight" host Piers Morgan interview Casper McNich, a neighbor of suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes. McNich, who is accompanied by a neighbor interviewed Wednesday by AL.com, says he sold Dykes the property about two years back.

"After he (Dykes) moved on the property, then he put up a barbed-wire fence and he started cutting down the trees, like he had a clear view of anything, so he wasn't attacked or something," McNich says. "Really, I just pretty much avoided him."

CNN's Anderson Cooper also covered the Midland City crisis, and interviewed Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok about Dykes' alleged "anti-America" views. Video of that interview does not appear to be available online.

AL.com reporter Erin Edgemon also interviewed Potok, who said he is unable to tie Dykes to a specific anti-government group.

Two Alabama state legislators appeared on the NBC "Today" show Thursday morning and described the condition of Ethan, the 5-year-old hostage, and discussions with his mother. State Rep. Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, also described bus driver Poland as a hero.